White Lies

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Title

White Lies

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Set in the early 1900s, this feature follows a Māori medicine woman (played by singer Whirimako Black) who leaves Tūhoe country to for Auckland. There a Māori servant (Rachel House) enlists her to help a wealthy Pākehā woman (Westside’s Antonia Prebble) with a scandalous secret. Award-winning Mexican director Dana Rotberg adapted this tale of culture clash and deception from Witi Ihimaera's novella Medicine Woman. This opening excerpt sees Paraiti surviving a horrifying attack, before jumping...

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Video

Date created

2013

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http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/white-lies-2013

Related subjects

culture clash / identity / healer / pregnancy / colonial / te urewera / traditional medicine / medicine / alberton / new zealand on air / nz on air / nzfc / nz film commission / attack / horse / meeting house / preacher / tūhoe / forest / wharenui / angel / te kooti / religious service / õpūtao marae / ruatāhuna / pregnant / māori medicine / medicine woman / traditional healing / 1900s / mother to be / rongoā / māori healing / marae / church service / tuakiri huna

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